You English--we English, I may say, for I am as much English as German--I believe have got the same feeling somewhere in our hearts, but we lock it up and hide it away.

Pray God I shall never have to choose to which nation I belong, though for that matter there in no choice in it at all, for I am certainly a German subject.

Guten Tag, Koln; let us instantly have our coffee.

There is no coffee like German coffee, though the French coffee is undeniably pleasanter to the mere superficial palate.

But it doesn't touch the heart, as everything German touches my heart when I come back to the Fatherland." He chattered on in tremendous high spirits.
"And to think that to-night we shall sleep in true German beds," he said.